Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little squiggles" on pieces of parchment to guide a singer or choir. Known as medieval neumes, the squiggles didn't ...

The language of music is universal, but can be lost over time. After a 20-year reconstruction effort, a researcher and a performer of medieval music have brought "lost" songs from the Middle Ages back ...

Even centuries after voices first soared in the stone-walled chambers of churches and monasteries, the music of medieval monks' chants has the power to send chills through the body of listeners. Now ...

In a large hall of St Saviour’s Monastery in Jerusalem, delicate musical notes not heard for 800 years rang through the air on Tuesday as midday bells chimed outside. Hunched over a small collection ...

Ludwig: Guten Morgen Naomi. I’m ready to play some marvellous medieval music …I’ve even brought a lute! Naomi: But Ludwig, medieval church music didn’t use lutes - they didn’t use any instruments at ...

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